National Party of Bavaria

The National Party was a nationalist political party in Bavaria that was active from 1836 to 1933. The party was backed by the aristocracy and military of Bavaria, and it strongly supported the Bavarian monarchy, the Bavarian nation, and the Catholic Church. The party was rigidly opposed to reform in the country, and it sought to conserve the powers of the Wittelsbach absolute monarchy. Under the German Empire, the National Party continued to push for Bavarian nationalism and even separatism, opposing the kingdom's subservience to Prussia. The party was dissolved in 1933 after the Nazi Party's rise to power.